“Playing the blues is nothing I found, it found me. I have been doing so long, I just do it. When I play and sing it’s like painting a picture with live people in it. I have fun and amuse myself with the paint and sound; I think that’s what folks enjoy about my blues, I play it in a mix color way. ” — “Brotha Ric” Patton, Sr.

“You’ve got to put hard work in to get something out of it. It don’t come easy. I do a lot of miles and there’s a lot of sleepless nights." — Michael Burks

“Music titled ‘Blues’ is a way to express the way one lives or feels when words just don't say enough.” — Blind Mississippi Morris

“The blues hasn’t died at all. It lives on in the young musicians like myself and others. Whenever we pick up our instruments, we’re just carrying on the traditions of our ancestors that started the music. I’m just glad to keep it going.” — Sean “Mack” McDonald

“I’m so happy and grateful for the job that I have had for the last 35 to 40 years and that’s playing music. Love to all the people who supported it and thank you for the opportunity. The only other thing I could pray for is more longevity.” — Larry McCray

“Main thing is I just don’t hear my kind of music anymore so I just wanted to put that out there. I didn’t have to do this. I could have stayed retired — I’m 87 years old — but I’m just trying to come back one more time.’" — Willie Cobbs

“The Blues isn’t just music, but it is an emotional genre that extends through all the other genres. It’s something we all experience every day, and it never goes away. Sometimes it is happy and joyful and other times is sad and disheartening, but the blues is something felt by all of us even if we don’t know what it really is. Overall, The Blues is something that has to be felt to be truly understood.” — Phillip D’Anthoni Stackhouse

"Don't plan on dying. Plan on living. Dying will take care of itself." — CeDell Davis

“Keep the blues alive. Pass it on.” — Lucious Spiller

“The blues is an amazing genre of music where people can express their emotions through song.” —“Six String Andrew” Sullivan

“I’m truly blessed. With music we can go anywhere we want to go. I’m free when I play music – everybody else is free with music.” — Mookie Cartwright

“Blues music is Africa's gift to to the world as channeled through the hearts and struggles of African American people. But its spirit and soul are universal to the human experience and live beyond geographic boundaries and racial divisions. It is the expression of humanity's soul.”

“Being a singer is a natural gift. It means I'm using to the highest degree possible the gift that God gave me to use. I'm happy with that.”

“Blues is a tonic for whatever ails you. I could play the blues and then not be blue anymore.”

“I don't want no drummer. I set the tempo.”

“There ain’t nothin I think better than the blues in my life. The blues represent what it represent when I was a child. Cause it never changed and I never changed. I love the blues. It’s just like medicine. I love the blues like mama love her baby child.”

“There’s one thing no one can take from me... that’s my passion for the Blues. Because the Blues is in my soul’.”

“Changing the world one Blues song at a time.”

“The blues is nothin' but life.”

“If you ain’t living the blues, you ain’t singing the blues.”

“I’m a firm believer in making a song my own.”

“The blues gives me an open door to love what I'm doing for the world...it's my light in the dark when I'm down.”

“As time pass, you progress whether you tryin’ to or not. Down through time, it applies to everybody: The more you work at it, the better you gotta get.”

“To me, blues music is a universal cathartic expression of the human condition. I know where it came from. But, I don’t care who you are, anybody can feel it.”

“The blues is the roots of American music and it’s great to explore the roots.”

“Blues is a good Feeling that expresses how we live where you been and where you’re going.”

“So, as long as I can, I want to go around the world trying to send satisfaction to people. Doing that is a great feeling to me.”

“I want to be known and as big as B.B. King throughout the whole world. I want everyone to know about this kid that can play the blues as if I was there when it was made, and to show that the young kids can do something with their life.”

"The blues is the basis of all modern music and it has changed my life forever. I don't know where I would be without it.”

“Well Lord, I'm still on the case. I'm still doing what Dr. King and Pops want me to do. I'm still on that freedom highway, and I’m going to walk on it until Dr. King's dream is realized.”

“I stone got crazy when I saw somebody run down them strings with a bottleneck. My eyes lit up like a Christmas tree and I said that I had to learn.”

“Music was kind of like a medicine for me. ‘Cause when I was depressed, I picked up my guitar and I practice and I practice and I say I’m going to get better and I’m going to play until I fall asleep or play until my fingers hurt and I can’t even feel the pain anymore.”

“It's bad you know.”

"It's going to be very warm here with the Holy Spirit, I tell ya."

“If you want to call it blues, soul, funk, rock and roll, whatever… It’s music. For real and from the heart. That’s the way we do it, every night.”

“Call the names of our ancestors down and honor them daily.”

“You don’t choose the blues, the blues choose you.”

“I was born into the Blues.”

Please be patient. I'm still working on it. I will add more artist as time goes by,